Stories by Felix Walton

A 'gaming laboratory' hopes to find out if rolling dice and slaying dragons is good for your brain. Audio

White Island Tours told a court it paid $500,000 a year for access to Whakaari - and helicopter companies also paid to conduct tours on the island.

The 2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption which killed 22 people was impossible to predict, a leading volcanologist told the court.

The company managing a small volcanic island was profiting in the millions before an eruption killed 22 people in 2019, court hears.

Thursday's meeting ended without a decision, despite a partial backdown from the mayor on selling shares in the city's airport.

The director of an Auckland virtual reality studio expects Apple's new gadget to be a game-changer. Audio

A dour mood hung above this year's Stormwater New Zealand Conference, as attendees reflected on months of flooding and severe weather.

Though Wayne Brown has promised to fund the Citizens Advice Bureau, he did not confirm if existing funding would be reduced. Audio

The high level of profitability was making people question the level of service they were getting, says Consumer NZ chief executive Jon Duffy.

A Christchurch-developed video game about fishing is making waves overseas.

The sequencing shows the strain is likely to be covered by the vaccine, but one leading vaccinologist says Aotearoa has "dropped the ball badly" on vaccinating pregnant people.

A petition with 20,000 signatures was handed to Auckland Council in a last-ditch effort to halt budget cuts to the Citizens Advice Bureau.

Video games could be our next billion-dollar industry, but Australian tax incentives threaten to stunt growth of the sector in New Zealand.

Watercare chief executive Dave Chambers said the hike was unavoidable - and locals appear reluctantly in agreement.

Tempers flared at a packed meeting when council officials did not have the answers Muriwai residents wanted.

Residents of a rural Hawke's Bay town cheered for repair crews arriving to restore their power after more than two weeks in a blackout after Cyclone Gabrielle.

The numbers of people seeking aid at Civil Defence centres in Auckland has dropped, but plenty of families are still displaced.

The sun finally came out over Northland on Wednesday after the region was rocked by Cyclone Gabrielle - but some residents were still being urged to evacuate.

The sun may finally be out, but the crisis is not over for Auckland residents displaced by last month's floods. Audio

Volunteers have been working around the clock in South Auckland to provide relief to people displaced by flood waters.

Aotearoa's sexual health clinics have been operating with the same staff and resources for almost a decade, despite increasing demand.

Svetlozar Kraleva says he still has questions about the death of his wife Krasimira Kraleva more than two years ago.

The number of parcels delivered late in the past three years has doubled, but posties are working harder than ever.

More than 1600 roads in Auckland are set to have their speed limits reduced by 30 March.

Walter- who is just 22 - lived on the streets for years and calls poverty a "generational curse" that left him with nowhere else to turn.